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there. Little by little you are catching up to where you are already!"
The Master continued, "This is the path in which haste is not possible. It takes years and years to grow an oak or a mango tree. It took Mahavir twelve and a half years to develop one hundred per cent awareness and understanding. What you need is deep conviction in the Self and in the method to reach that. Always be vigilant and you will see divinity dwelling inside the breath of your breath."
Munishree reflected. Yes, I was in a hurry. A person who is in a hurry does not see. Always he keeps his eye far away. He does not see the ground on which he walks or the garden in which he moves. He does not look into the body in which he dwells nor does he see his own mind by which he thinks. I was in a state of delusion.
Munishree felt his tension melt away and his vision expand with this meaningful interchange with his teacher. He began to feel a deep patience with himself. He saw that his growth was a process rather than a final goal. When he shifted his perspective from the distant goal, he stopped chopping his life into fragments, favoring this experience over that one. Likes and dislikes dropped down, and he cultivated a wholistic participation in life.
By keeping aware of the small moment to moment awareness, he sharpened his attunement to the deepest insights which flashed upon his consciousness at any time, in any place. He stopped his mind from classifying and categorizing these flashes of insight as culminating points or as indications that he was at last enlightened. Instead, he experienced them as sparks, as heights of vision in which his whole being felt united, in which his soul caught sight of its true Self. Each glimpse was perhaps a mini-enlightenment, but more important, it was leading him deeper and deeper into himself and closer and closer to that center where ecstasy and omnipresent life are continually felt. In these cumulative experiences, he was gaining a multitude of angles with which to view and respect his life.
He came to see that there was no true Enlightenment until he would have put an end to duality in his life. He wanted to
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